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name: business-valuer
description: "Occupational skill for the role 'business valuer' (also: business valuation analyst, business valuation officer, chartered business valuator, valuator of business, chartered appraiser, business evaluator). Use when the user asks for typical business valuer work such as: typical business valuer responsibilities"
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# Business Valuer

Business valuers provide valuation assessements of business entities, stock and other securities and intangible assets, in order to assist their clients in strategic decision-making procedures such as mergers and acquisitions, litigation cases, bankruptcy, taxation compliance and general restructuring of the companies.

## Core workflow


## How to use this skill

- Read [references/profile.md](references/profile.md) for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult [references/tasks.md](references/tasks.md) for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check [references/skills.md](references/skills.md) for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check [references/tools.md](references/tools.md) for the software commonly used in this role.
- See [references/ai-skills.md](references/ai-skills.md) — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).

## Key competences (essential)

- analyse business plans
- apply strategic thinking
- business valuation techniques
- financial markets
- financial statements
- interpret financial statements
- investment banking
- market pricing
- mergers and acquisitions
- perform asset recognition
- perform stock valuation
- security of assets legislation
- stock market
- strategic planning
- tax legislation

## Hot technologies

- Adobe Acrobat
- Atlassian Confluence
- Atlassian JIRA
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft SharePoint


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## Hot technologies

Top tools from 50 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-09):

- Microsoft Excel — 64 %
- Microsoft Word — 40 %
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 38 %
- Bloomberg — 24 %
- Capital IQ — 24 %
- PitchBook — 10 %
- S&P Capital IQ — 8 %
- Tableau — 8 %
- Power BI — 6 %

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*Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/50760da6-abc3-424c-b159-8ddf0818e016), O*NET 30.3 (13-1199.04, manual nearest match). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*